Re: [Gretl-users] Installation error on -gretl- 2015d

Okay, after I do this, successfully: clive@clivubu:~/gretl-git$ sudo git clone ssh:// stonebridgespur(a)git.code.sf.net/p/gretl/git gretl-git [sudo] password for clive: Cloning into 'gretl-git'... Password: remote: Counting objects: 137418, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (30143/30143), done. remote: Total 137418 (delta 109830), reused 134008 (delta 106823) Receiving objects: 100% (137418/137418), 172.73 MiB | 713.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (109830/109830), done. Checking connectivity... done. I get this: clive@clivubu:~/gretl-git$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-quiet-build --enable-openmp --enable-build-doc ./configure: line 2338: config.log: Permission denied ./configure: line 2348: config.log: Permission denied Which is why I have to run: clive@clivubu:~/gretl-git$ sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-quiet-build --enable-openmp --enable-build-doc [...] Configuration: Installation path: /usr/local Use readline library: yes Use gnuplot for graphs: yes Use pdflatex for typesetting: yes Use libgsf for zip/unzip: no MPFR support: yes sse2 support for RNG: yes OpenMP support: yes MPI support: no AVX support for arithmetic: yes Build with GTK version: 2.0 Build gretl documentation: yes Use Lucida fonts: no Build message catalogs: yes Build gretl addons: no X-12-ARIMA support: yes TRAMO/SEATS support: yes libR support: yes ODBC support: no JSON parsing support: yes Experimental audio support: no Use xdg-utils in installation: if DESTDIR not set LAPACK libraries: -llapack -lblas -lgfortran Now type 'make' to build gretl. You can also do 'make pdfdocs' to build the PDF documentation. And then... clive@clivubu:~/gretl-git$ make ./builddate Can't write to build.h Makefile:103: recipe for target 'buildstamp' failed make: *** [buildstamp] Error 1 I hope that makes things clearer. Clive On 25 October 2015 at 23:57, Clive Nicholas <clivelists(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote: > Allin, > > Okay, thanks for your advice. The only thing is is that I've never built > -gretl- from -git- as I've never needed to. Remember, I was only following > the suggested steps Jack gave me! > > Clive > > On 25 October 2015 at 23:21, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: > >> On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Clive Nicholas wrote: >> >> Allin, >>> >>> I didn't add it because it still generate errors! >>> >>> clive@clivubu:~/gretl-2015d$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local >>> --enable-quiet-build --enable-openmp --enable-build-doc >>> >> >> Clive, we (Oleh and I) are telling you: (a) "make pdfdocs" will not work >> unless you have given the option --enable-build-doc to the configure >> script, but (b) the latter option is valid only when you are building from >> the git source, and not with a regular release source package such as >> gretl-2015d.tar.xz. >> >> In other words, if you want to build the docs you _must_ use the git >> source and you _must_ add --enable-build-doc when configuring. In addition >> you _must not_ invoke "sudo" when doing "git pull" or running the configure >> script. >> >> >> Allin >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gretl-users mailing list >> Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu >> http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users >> > > > > -- > Clive Nicholas > > "My colleagues in the social sciences talk a great deal about > methodology. I prefer to call it style." -- Freeman J. Dyson > -- Clive Nicholas "My colleagues in the social sciences talk a great deal about methodology. I prefer to call it style." -- Freeman J. Dyson _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users